in-class #7: Brown v. Board of Education

After watching SIMPLE JUSTICE, write a two-paragraph journal entry addressing the following:

a) What ideas did the justices appear to adopt from Justice Harlen's dissenting vote 58 years before in Plessy v Ferguson in deciding to reverse the Plessy decision? see Plessy handout or case on moodle if needed

b) What new factors (not involved in the Plessy decision 50 years earlier) led the justices to reverse Plessy and rule that the "separate but equal" doctrine was a violation of the 14th Amendment equal protection clause? If necessary, use BROWN case on moodle

Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.